Ministry of Women and Child Development
CARINGS portal for adoption maintained by CARA revamped to ensure online processing of adoption cases expeditiously and transparently,
All the Districts Magistrates have already registered on the portal,
Chief Medical Officers of the districts are also being registered on the portal for necessary medical intervention
The CARINGS portal for adoption maintained by CARA has been revamped to ensure online processing of adoption cases expeditiously and transparently. The end to end digitisation of entire process has led to faster processing at field level also. All the Districts Magistrates have already registered on the portal. Further, Chief Medical Officers of the districts are also being registered on the portal to determine health status of the special need children and for necessary medical intervention for fast tracking placement of such children.
As per information received from Central Adoption Resource Authority , the details of number of children adopted by Indians and Foreigners/Non-Resident Indians  during each of the last three years and current year  are as under :-
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Year
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In-country Adoption
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Inter-country Adoption
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2019-2020
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3351
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394
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2020-2021
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3142
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417
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2021-2022
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2991
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414
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2022-2023

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1836
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222
Most of the grievances relate to waiting time of the Prospective Adoptive Parents . The waiting period of the PAPs depends on the availability of children who are declared legally free for adoption by CWC. It also depends on the choice of the PAPs to adopt from a particular State and also the age group preferred. While there is a long queue to adopt a normal young child upto six years of age, there is no waiting period for the PAPs who desire to adopt a child having special needs and a child from immediate placement category . Further, the waiting time is relevant for the PAPs only, the children who are legally free do not have to wait.
On the basis of feedback received from the stakeholders and experts, Central Adoption Resource Authority  has framed the Adoption Regulations, 2022 in-line with the Juvenile Justice  Act, 2015  which has been notified on 23.09.2022. The Adoption Regulations, 2022 were framed keeping in mind the issues and challenges faced by CARA and other stake holders including the Adoption Agencies & Prospective Adoptive Parents .
Some of the salient features include  issue of Adoption Order by District Magistrate instead of Court,  upper age limit for PAPs reduced to 85 years for couple and 40 years for a single PAPs in case they are adopting a child below 2 years,  7-day adoption effort launched by CARA for Resident Indian , Non-Resident Indian , and Overseas Citizen of India  PAPs,  Chief Medical Officer  to determine the health status of the child based on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016,  strict time line has been laid down for uploading LFA  within maximum period of ten days,  PAPs with more than two children do not qualify to get referral for a normal child,  mandatory counselling has been stipulated for all the relevant stakeholders like prospective parents and older children at pre-adoption, adoption and post-adoption stages,  times lines at various stages like uploading of LFA  within ten days, examination of special needs children within a period of fifteen days by the Chief medical Officer and verification of adoption application documents by District Child Protection Unit  within five days,  emphasis on foster adoption of adoptable children already in foster care after a period of two years and  stringent measures have been provisioned for PAPs becoming reason for disruption or dissolution.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Women & Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.